Red Chicago
Subtitle: American communism at its grassroots, 1928-35
By: Randi Storch.
Series: Working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252032066
Subjects: Trade Union Unity League (U.S.); Communism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sam Hammersmark's Chicago; title: Revolutionary recruitment: numbers and experience; title: "True revolutionaries": Chicago's party culture in thought and action; title: Red relief; title: "Abolish capitalism": the Trade Union Unity League's potential and problems; title: "Generals are of no use without an army": how and why; title: Communists abandoned the Trade Union Unity League; title: "Not that these youths are geniuses": young communists move from the margins to the mainstream; title: Epilogue.